How to Kill a Palestinian

Dr. Elias Akleh

Jan 29, 2009

Commenting on the
latest Israeli one-directional onslaught against the Palestinians of
Gaza Strip, the Israeli 10th TV channel has disclosed that the
Israeli genocidal forces had used half of its air force and had
launched at least 2500 air raids against Gaza Strip. The television
military correspondent stated that the Israeli warplanes had dropped
more than a thousand tons of explosives, including white phosphorous
and DIME (Dense Inert Metal Explosive) bombs, during three weeks on
the virtually unarmed densely populated 360 square Kilometers Strip.
He added that the shells fired by tanks, artillery, gunboats, and
infantry were not included in those fired by the air force.

After a whole week of continuous air bombardments Israel sent in its
elite foot soldiers; 30,000 of them, and called in 10,000 of its
reservists. Armed with the latest weapons of mass murder, covered
with an umbrella of free reigning air force, and accompanied with
raining shells of heavy artilleries, they drove their tanks into the
civilian towns murdering civilians and destroying every structure in
their path.

Living outside of Gaza one cannot fully understand the barbarity of
this genocide especially when the Western media had barely covered
any of its atrocity. To gain a slight idea of its enormity one
should remember that, during the 6-days war of 1967, this same
Israeli army was distributed on four fronts; Egyptian, Jordanian,
Syrian, and Lebanese, and it was fighting regular armies. Now the
whole brunt of this army is concentrated on a small strip against
unarmed and untrained civilian population.

Latest official count was 1350 murdered, 40% of them were children,
and 5300 were injured; mutilated and amputated. It was reported that
80% of the injured were the victims of burning phosphorous bombs.
More dead are being discovered under the rebels, and many seriously
injured are expected later on to die.

Israeli tanks had left several city blocks completely destroyed
without any homes or structure standing. The tanks shelled homes and
apartment towers. Due to the small size of Gaza Strip Palestinians
had to build vertically. Many apartment towers went up 15-20 stories
high with each story containing 6-8 apartments. A total of 20,000
buildings were completely or partially burnt and damaged. The UN has
reported that more than 50,000 Palestinians are left homeless and
are now crowded into 50 emergency shelters. An estimated of 50,000
more are living with relatives and in tents they erected on the
ruins of their homes.

The Israeli bombardment targeted everything in Gaza including
government buildings, police headquarters, banks and business
offices, the main university, 67 schools sheltering civilians,
shopping centers and market places, factories, water, sewer, and
electricity infrastructures, private homes and apartment towers and
charity organizations. Farms, including their animals, were also
targeted and hundreds of acres of crops and fruit groves were
incinerated. Religious buildings, where civilians usually seek
shelter, were specifically targeted. Israeli fighter planes had
completely destroyed 41 mosques, and partially damaged 51 others.
One church was also targeted. Even cemeteries were not spared; 5 of
them were bombed.

Although the Israeli army was given the exact GPS co-ordinates of
every UN structure, as asserted by Christopher Gunness, the UNRWA
spokesman, Israeli F-16 planes had repeatedly dropped phosphorous
bombed on UN schools knowing very well that hundreds of civilians
had taken shelter there. At least 45 children and women were burnt
and murdered there.

The UN headquarters in Gaza City was also hit with three, not just
one, phosphorous bombs burning tons of humanitarian aid and food
stuff. The fire kept on burning for three days. UN-flagged
humanitarian convoy was also shelled killing one driver.

Medical centers and paramedics were not spared. The Red Crescent Al-Quds
hospital in Tal el-Hawa neighborhood was hit by Israeli shells and
caught on fire. Other two hospitals; Al-Wafa and Al-Fata hospitals,
were also shelled, leading the World Health Organization to express
its deep concern about the serious implications of such bombardments.
16 other smaller health clinics and 16 ambulances were also damaged.
Medics were targeted and prevented from helping the injured. Ten of
them, including two doctors, were murdered.

Media centers were particularly targeted. Local and international
news reporters were prevented from entering Gaza. Those, who were
able to enter, were directly targeted. The Al-Shuruq office tower
housing several international and Arab media outlets was directly
hit. Two cameramen working for Abu Dhabi TV were injured, while the
offices of Reuters News Agency, Fox TV, Sky, and Al-Arabiya TV
offices were damaged. Another raid had damaged the headquarter
offices of Al-Resala newspaper.

Similar to all their previous wars the Israeli soldiers had
committed massacres against Palestinian unarmed civilians. They have
used internationally banned weapons such as phosphorous bombs, DIME,
and depleted uranium, as reported by international physicians,
eyewitnesses, and military experts. Israeli soldiers had mutilated
the bodies of their victims to instill terror in the hearts of
people hoping they will leave Gaza. Israeli soldiers herded many
families in one building using them as human shield, and then later
on bombed the building on top of them. They shot civilians, mainly
children, directly and at point blank. The bodies of some children
were found shot several times; as many as 18 bullets in the body of
a 12 years old girl, and 12 bullets in the body of her 2 years old
sister.

Israeli soldiers had wiped off whole Palestinian families. Al-Samuni
family lost 11 members, Abu Aisha family lost 6, Batran family lost
6, al-Rayyan family lost 15 and al-Balousha family lost 5 sisters.
Other families, too many to mention here, were either murdered or
incinerated by the phosphorous bombs. The Israeli army has been
carrying out a deliberate indiscriminate mass murder. During the
first Intifada, 1987 - 1993, they murdered 1162 Palestinians. During
the second Intifada, 2001- 2006, they murdered 5500 Palestinians.
Now, in a short period of three weeks, they murdered 1350
Palestinians.

This onslaught is a holocaust since the many tons of phosphorous
bombs, dropped on Gaza cities, had burnt civilians to the bones,
burnt their homes and buildings, and burnt their fields and crops.
This is the holocaust that the Israeli Deputy Defense Minister,
Matan Vilnai, had threatened Palestinians with when he stated: "the
more Qassam fire intensifies and the rockets reach a longer range,
they will bring upon themselves a bigger shoah (holocaust) because
we will use all our might to defend ourselves."

One cannot help but wonder how could a group of people, who claim to
be the victims of a holocaust, commit another holocaust against
another nation. What is it that feeds, perpetuates and intensifies
this Judaic genocidal spirit although all Arabs, including
Palestinians, had offered these Jewish Jews many agreements of
coexistence, peace and security? The answer comes through their
media outlets, through the words of their scholarly educators, and
through the teachings of their Rabbis.

"All of the Palestinians must be killed; men, women, infants, and
even their beasts" cries the religious opinion of Rabbi Yisrael
Rosen, the director of the long-established Tsomet Religious
Institute. He wrote that Palestinians are like the nation of
Amalekites, who attacked the Israelite tribes led by Moses on their
way to Jerusalem. He stated that the Lord sent down in the Torah a
ruling that allowed the Jews to kill the Amalekites, and that this
ruling is known in Jewish jurisprudence.

The Torah states: "Annihilate the Amalekites from the beginning to
the end. Kill them and wrest them from their possessions. Show them
no mercy. Kill continuously, one after the other. Leave no child,
plant, or tree. Kill their beasts, from camels to donkeys." Rosen
stated that Amalekites are not a particular race, but rather all
those who hate and oppose the Jews; Christians and Muslims.

Many leading Israeli Rabbis support Rosen's views. Israel's former
Sephardic Chief Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu advocated carpet bombing of
Gaza stating that "there is absolutely no moral prohibition against
the indiscriminate killing of civilians during massive military
offensive on Gaza" (The Jerusalem Post, 30 May, 2007). His son Rabbi
Shmuel Eliyahu amplified his father's genocidal call stating: "if
they don't stop after we kill 100, then we must kill a thousand,
then we must kill 10,000 and even a million"

Many Rabbis had argued that Palestinians in Gaza are not innocent
civilians and that during war time it is not individuals but nations
the Israelis are fighting. (It seems that Hitler had adopted this
Telmudic teaching when he persecuted all European Jews)

Israeli educators, scholars, and politicians, openly, advocate the
annihilation of all Palestinians. Dr. Nachum Rakover, a legal
scholar, opined "They voted for killers and sent them to kill us. To
call them (civilians) innocent is a tragic comedy... civilians are
partners of the killers" Eli Yeshai, Israeli official in the
Orthodox Shas party argued that "extermination of the enemy is
sanctioned by the Torah" Many other politicians called for the need
for "wiping off Gaza from the face of earth", and "annihilating of
every moving thing there." The right-wing Israeli politician Avigdor
Lieberman proposed nuking Gaza following the US example when it
dropped the atomic bomb on Japan during WWII.

This "ideology of annihilation" is by no means a minority opinion in
Israel, but represents a mainstream in the Jews of Israel as well as
Jews in the West (US). The popular attitude is "if it was right by
God to order us to commit genocide during Biblical time, why can't
it be right to commit genocide now. Has God changed his mind?"
Indeed Judaic god is a racist genocidal god.

Watch and listen here to an example of how Israeli Jews are
brainwashed and indoctrinated into the ideology of annihilation by
their rabbis and scholars through Israeli media. Watch Max
Blumenthal's videotape of a group of messianic Orthodox Jewish
Chabad-Lubavitch exhibit this ideology in NYC in January 11, 2009.

The Israeli spokesman, Nachman Abramovic demonized Palestinian
children stating "They may look young to you, but these people are
terrorists at heart. Don't look at their deceptively innocent faces,
try to think of the demons inside each of them ... I am absolutely
certain these people would grow to be evil terrorists if we allowed
them to grow... would you allow them to grow to kill your children or
finish them off right now? ... honost and moral people ought to
differentiate between true humans and human animals. We do kill
human animals and we do so unapologetically. Besides who in the West
is in a position to lecture us on killing human animals. After all,
whose hands are clean?"

Human animal mentioned by Abramovic refers to the Judaic religious
belief that Jews are Gods chosen people; the elite and the pure-blooded,
while all others (non-Jews, Goyims, gentiles) are animal souls
incarnated into human bodies to serve the Jews. Killing a human
animal is just a sport like hunting deer or birds.

Another Israeli spokeswoman, Tzipora Menache, stated that she was
not worried about negative ramifications the Israeli onslaught on
Gaza might have on the way the Obama administration would view
Israel. She said "You know very well, and the stupid Americans know
equally well, that we control their government, irrespective of who
sits in the White House. You see, I know it and you know it that no
American president can be in a position to challenge us even if we
do the unthinkable. What can they (Americans) do to us? We control
congress, we control the media, we control show biz, and we control
everything in America. In America you can criticize God, but you
can't criticize Israel"

By Dr. Elias Akleh

"When a Jew, in America or in South Africa, talks to
his Jewish companions about 'our' government, he means the
government of Israel."